A Small Orange

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A Small Orange, don’t think just because they are small just because of their domain name. A Small Orange is a web hosting company that provides hosting to just a tad over one hundred thousand domains globally. They are a company that was founded on the principal of providing high quality services at a reasonable market price. They have excellent uptime, and superb web hosting support staff to assist you day or night in their US offices.

Additionally, should you be a fan of the environment and want to host your website without doing damage to the environment, A small orange is the perfect web host. A Small Orange purchases carbon offset credits as well as generating 50% of their energy from wind turbines.

A Small Orange Technical Analysis

At WebHostingToolBox, it’s all about crunching numbers, and displaying the processed result on our website for the public to see. As such, we’ve created these two graphs outlined below to provide you with some input of how things really look like at A Small Orange. In our eyes, A Small Orange, they look amazingly well, but don’t take our word for it, have a look for yourself.

Total Domains

Domain Distribution

.com84,289

.net6,883

.org6,753

.info1,577

.biz393

While there is and or has been some fluctuations within the hosted domain names at A Small Orange, they normally recoup within one-two months. This typically happens when customers cancel their hosting packages, go out of business or a plethora of other reasons.

So here's what we think...

A Small Orange might be a “small” web hosting provider, but this small web hosting provider has two datacenters, and a dedicated and loyal customer base. Founded in 2003 A Small Orange has become a web hosting provider that is reliable not only because if their superior customer service, but also because of their near perfect uptime.

A Small Orange is a web hosting company that is just large enough to be a reliable web hosting partner in your online business, but just small enough not to be a machine that sees every customer as just another number on the balance sheet. To that end, you’ll even find that A Small Orange provide non-profits and charities with a 10% ongoing discount or a free “small plan”.

Reliability:

When choosing any web hosting provider, we agree with you that reliability is incredibly important. This is why, we’ve decided to dig into A Small Orange and see what’s under the bonnet, as they typically like to disclose this information on their website.

What we’ve found is that they are a web hosting provider is serious about how it handles your data. As such, their servers are packed with memory, SSD (solid state drives), and the latest in I/O optimization technologies to ensure maximum performance for your web hosting account. Not mentioning that their entire service is covered by a 90-day money back guarantee should you be unhappy.

Features:

When it comes to features, A Small Orange will literally blow your mind. All their shared hosting plans come with a daily backup service, SSD (Solid State Drives) driven environment, cPanel as a control panel and much more. There is literally nothing that you would need starting a website that isn’t already included in their web hosting packages.

Ok, perhaps if you’re looking at doing an E-Commerce website, you might need a dedicated IP address and a SSL certificate, but apart from that there is literally nothing else that’s needed on a typical web hosting account.

Support:

Support is one of the most important factors in our eyes when we suggest web hosting providers, to the point that we almost were not going to include A Small Orange in this website due to their lackadaisical approach to support. However, in the last couple of years, we’ve seen a huge change in their commitment in providing reliable and stable web hosting support.

Their newly staffed support team is available 24/7/365 via phone and ticketing system, and when we say 24/7/365 we really do mean that they are there, we’ve even tested them ourselves. They also have a community forum, and many other support resources that provide superior customer service to their clients.

Pricing:

A Small Orange has never been an inexpensive web hosting provider. However, they have really made at attempt recently to ensure that they provide industry average pricing across their web hosting services. However, it’s commonly said that you get what you pay for and their service is of excellent quality, so we expect their pricing to be within reason and for it to stay that way.

User Friendliness:

A Small Orange web hosting account is like taking a new gadet out of the box for the first time, it’s packed with features, options and everything is easy, quick and hassle free. That’s honestly the best way to describe A Small Orange web hosting account, be that a WordPress hosting account, Dedicated Server or anything in between. Using one of the most power control panels in the industry, cPanel is the control panel of choice for A Small Orange, and we believe it suits them well in every respect.

Summary:

A Small Orange is an excellent hosting platform that is reliable, stable and adaptable to suit your needs and wants. Packed with features and options, you’ll never go wrong with their lineup of superior web hosting plans. Regardless of which hosting plan you choose, you’ll be backed up by their 90-Day money back guarantee and new and improved support department.

Pros

90-Day Refund Policy

Specialty Pricing for Non-Profits

Excellent Support Team

User-Friendly Control Panel

Cons

No Live Chat Option

Only Two Data Center Locations

At WebHostingToolBox, it’s all about crunching numbers, and displaying the processed result on our website for the public to see. As such, we’ve created these two graphs outlined below to provide you with some input of how things really look like at A Small Orange. In our eyes, A Small Orange, they look amazingly well, but don’t take our word for it, have a look for yourself.

So what do other Webmasters think?

I have been using ASO for years now and only finally managed to write a review for them. I have found their services to be awesome and satisfying in every way. Tickets are answered no matter what time it is and its 24x7x365 and that's the god's honest truth. Yet all their answers arrive in my inbox in under 15 mins!

I'm with ASO for 3 - 4 years now, so far they are the most impressive web hosting provider that I've been with like forever. I advise all developers that I work with to switch over to ASO, that's because they will help you with any missing modules or extensions your missing and help you as much as possible if your stuck.

Since the initial signup to this very day, I've had nothing but absolutely pleasure dealing with A Small Orange. They are a fantastic company, they have outstanding uptime and support. Their support has been incredible with all kinds of support and dedication. They moved my entire website from my previous web hosting company to their servers, not only did they do it very quickly, they also didn't even lose a single file. They even did the DNS change for me, when I provided my Godaddy login information to them. Lovely team!

A small orange is not the cheapest in town, but they do have value for their income. The price is good, the only complaint is that I had to use port 26 rather than port 25 as it was blocked by I dunno who. The hosting environment itself is fast, just sometimes there is blacklists... but apart from that we're good. I can't say more about that... but I think they changed something in the last weeks... because they are MUCH better than they were previously at delivering to inboxes.

A friend recommended ASO to me, and I've not regretted it since. Websites go down all the time but when ASO goes down is extremely rare. If they do, Then there is a much bigger problem. So with that in mind, Im pretty sure they don't wanna be offline... as much as I don't want them to be! I've yet to see them dip below 99.9% uptime!! (so I can get my free credit). Doesn't stop me from following their outage status on twitter. Love these guys, choose them if your choosing a website hosting company.

Making the switch to ASmallOrange.com has saved me over $382 per year. Their service is twice as fast as my previous web hosting provider and has been really a god send. Also we've been able to cut the spam that arrives in the spam folder by 1/2. Their support team has been really helpful and has assisted us in filtering the spam, setting up whitelists, and organize the website. I've never been with a web hosting provider that cares so much about their web hosting clients. Really delighted that I've joined.

I feel like a valuable customer; whenever there is a problem that I can't solve, I shoot off a ticket. The funny thing is that I get a reply within 20 mins and often I find that the problem has been solved for me. Sometimes, I find that I have to apply the fix myself, but... overall its a rock solid service. Peace ASO!

A small Orange is one of the best LAMP Stack environments that I've seen. They have stacks of ASO are amazing, they are BLAZING FAST and come backed with a 247 support resource center. I decided to use their service to help me move my website, as such... wow... they did it and quick! I switched the DNS and that was it... done! They are very responsive, if this continues like this for a long time more... I'll never need to pick another web hosting plan!

I originally signed up with ASO around mid 2006. The downtimes that we/I felt were minimal and the support was actually pretty decent. That lasted a few months, then the service started to go downhill pretty quickly there after. I was about to start moving over 72 web hosting clients that I had hosted, but then decided quickly against them. They have been sorta flaky ever since. However, in the last year or so, they did improve when the management changed. So in so many words, glad that the management changed.

I've been building a test web hosting service on the back of ASO, and I found that via my monitoring that I've literally had no downtimes or cuts in service. That's vital for me, then I'm really impressed with the flexibility their control panel allows, its like the control panel is built for easy of use.. and it just keeps giving. Even with the ASO custom theme, all the features are still there.

I have been using ASmallOrange for over 8 years now, and joined in 2010. At the the time it was being run by a couple of guys called Lighter and Armstrong, and the service was really spectacular... the service never shuddered once, it was always online, stable and reliable. Now the management changed and while the service has started to improve, I feel like their growth pains have also started... as the server that Im on, seems more laggy, more bogged down... and less rapid. I guess its because they started to make money, rather than running something for the sake of fun. I was happy that the management changed, now the management has changed again... so not really sure. Lets see what the future holds.

A Small Orange is probably the best hosting provider that I've used since switching from HostGator. The only reason why I left HostGator was because they totally refused to be a professional shop. They deleted all my data and said that It was my fault for them being unable to do something normal. I don't really know what to say. However, ASmallOrange.com helped me get my new website setup and whatever data I had left uploaded to the website. Its finally fully online.

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